This is the new and improved version of both the Periodic Poetry Contest and the Haiku Contest. From this point out, both contests will be combined into one massive contest for everyone to enjoy! And as such, each user is allowed to enter is both contests with separate entries if they so desire, effectively doubling the odds of winning. Each contest (One being general poetry and the other exclusively haiku) will have one winner every month. Every month, two winners (one from each contest shall be chosen and receive a merit for all their hard work. Show it off to your friends, gloat about it to your enemies! Tell your parents about it and confuse them! It's a win-win-win-win-win scenario, folks.

Rules

General Poetry Contest:- It must fit the theme if the month (same theme as the Haiku Contest).- It must be submitted by the deadline.- It cannot have inappropriate language in it.- It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you).- The poem must be created for this contest- A user cannot win twice in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every month!)- Only one submission per user will be accepted

Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a comment on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.(Original idea by ubertuna, itemized rules by DragonMistress, modified by Devoidless)

Haiku Contest"A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons."Well, that said, here are the rules:- It must fit the theme of the month (same as General Poetry Contest)-The haiku must be original (no plagiarizing)!- It must be submitted before the deadline- It must be created for the contest (no using works previously written)- One submission per user- The same user cannot win twice in a row (but they are welcome to submit!)

Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go. The winner will then make a post on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.(Original idea and itemized rules by Maverick4, modified by Devoidless)First ThemesThe first themes to kick off this contest shall be:- The theme for the General Poetry contest this run is "Touch of Truth".

- The theme for the Haiku contest is "Broken Bond".Submitting an entrySince there are two separate contests, users are required to mention in the post which contest they wish to use the entry for. Any entry without this is subject to not being entered into either contest. Examples of how to clarify which contest an entry is for:-

This poem is for the General Poetry contest

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-This is for the Haiku contest

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I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest

Remember, each user is allowed to join both contests!

Alright! Looking forward to seeing what you all can create! Good luck, and have fun with it!

Dovakiin must you act like a spriggan All spry and a wigglin'How dare you go aboutAnd do nothing but shoutWhat a fool you areTo be be a master of guitar Or as we call it the luteSuch an unreliable bootWhen they cat even flyLike a vampire that is so spryLike a Fus Ro Da to the soulOr a butterfly that is as cold as the south poleWe must now drink the nigh away through these flagonsTo be ready to fight some evil dragons

@Devoidless: May I get a ruling on the syllable count for the word "every"? This is one of the many English words that have dropped syllables--also known as syncope.

Other examples are "favorite"(pronounced fave-writ as opposed to fave-o-writ) and "interest" (in-trest as opposed to in-ter-est). I wasn't sure because after checking a few dictionary entries, they all listed "every" as two syllables (ev-ree as opposed to ev-e-ree). Thanks for your time.

This is for the general poetry contest.Sunday afternoon.9 years olda brief break from homework.Online games. My escape to Eden.

Just 10 minutes,then 20.hooked. I found love online.

Love? more like lust.Soon eyes sting, back aches,fingers rust. social awareness turns to dust.

Now, i am a rotting corpse. I should have seen,before selling my soul to the screenthat there was so much more i could have beeninstead of this left right, up down, click machine.

I think that I should play no more.On Thing Thing 3 or Age of Warbut what's to do outside my door? The real world is such a bore. I crawl back in, craving moreswitch on, log in. until fingers sore.

What a sorry tale i must tellof how from freedomdown i fell and came crashing through the gates of hell,too deep for you to hear me yellso then i lived, inside my shell.

But a happy ending?"How can it be?!"Well I was in chains, but now, I'm free,I found a way back home you see,for when it occurred to me i had the keyto a nicer place, with no rich or poor,no parents yelling at my doorno death or hunger for evermore. no time was wasted,and at half past four i climbed the steps, to the top floor,of that brand new giant mega store.I stepped out through the fire door.

Level 100. I said, this is itmy time has come to save and quit.I walked to the edge.the sky was grimbut a smile appeared above my chin. and then it grew into a grinfor soon i would be cleansed of sinthe last boss fight is almost doneand as i took one more step, i said."I win".

Can someone tell me what the themes mean? What are they... PLease message me!

General - A Touch of TruthThe first part to focus on is the truth part..so obviously in your poetry there must be a mention of some form of truth (someone becoming aware to a truth, a truth that ever-continuous, a truth about something, etc)..but the touch adds perimeters to the level of truth..so your truth, basically, cannot be an "in your face" truth..but a subtle one..like a touch (so hinting towards the truth, using a metaphor for the truth, not outright saying what the truth it, etc)

Haiku - Broken BondA much simpler premise. Simply put, a bond once existed (whether it is literal or figurative) and it is now broken (or disconnected)

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